Entertainment & Reviews

With the Christmas season in full swing, Sidmouth, a Wyevale Garden Centre, has preparations underway to welcome the arrival of Father Christmas to the centre on Saturday 3rd December to open his magical Christmas grotto, which is set to be bigger and better than ever! The centre team welcome families from the local community come down to enjoy this festive event.

Father Christmas will be arriving at the garden centre in a lifeboat donated by the Sidmouth Lifeboat organisation, which will be pulled along by a tractor. Crew members in full lifeguard gear will be on hand to...

Exeter Phoenix’s annual short film festival, Two Short Nights, prepares to bring flocks of filmmakers, viewers and industry specialists to the city this December in a celebration of short film and the people who make them. Now in it’s fifteenth year, the festival returns to Exeter Phoenix with a line up of events combining unmissable opportunities for emerging filmmakers with an extraordinary range and diversity of screenings for film fans, this year’s festival has crammed more into two nights than ever before. Highlights for film lovers include International Perspectives, a curated...

The latest in the Devon festivals’ ‘Lemonfest Presents’ series brings the hotly tipped electronic act Boxed In to quayside venue MOVE Exeter on Saturday 11th February - for what is certain to be an energetic live show.

Their latest album ‘MELT’ – released in September - has received rave reviews from the likes of NME and The Guardian, with 80’s synth drenched lead single ‘Jist’ receiving regular plays on BBC 6 Music, Radio 1, and Radio X.

‘Jist’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGa3wIyWoY

The last few years have seen a meteoric rise for the London based act, with...

Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (18-20 November):

THEATRE

The Woman in Black Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It all begins innocently enough, but then, as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. https://...